Aug 30, 2017 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases
San Antonio, TX – A federal court has partially granted a request to block Texas from implementing Senate Bill 4 (SB 4). The law had been scheduled to take effect on Friday. The court order from U.S. District Court Judge Orlando Garcia blocks many of the...
Aug 28, 2017 | Court Cases Education, Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases
Los Angeles, CA – A civil rights group is urging the Arizona Supreme Court to uphold a trial court’s ruling that allows a community college to charge young immigrants granted federal protection from deportation a lower in-state tuition rate. MALDEF (Mexican...
Aug 25, 2017 | News Releases, Public Policy, Public Policy Immigrants' Rights
Los Angeles, CA – Civil rights groups and the California Secretary of State vowed Friday to work together to combat the Trump Administration’s efforts to suppress minority voting while also urging the White House to keep in place Deferred Action for Childhood...
Aug 25, 2017 | News Releases, Public Policy, Public Policy Immigrants' Rights
Los Angeles, CA – Please attribute the following statement on Donald J. Trump’s pardon of Joe Arpaio, the disgraced former sheriff of Maricopa County, AZ, to Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational...
Aug 24, 2017 | News Releases, Redistricting, Voting Rights
San Antonio, TX – A federal court today struck down portions of the current Texas redistricting plan for the State House of Representatives. A three-judge panel ruled that certain boundaries in the current state house redistricting plan, adopted in 2013,...
